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Heroku not Finding Handlebars Partials

I am completely lost with this problem, I'm sure I must now be being blind but I can't fix it. Heroku is returning a partial could not be found error (below) for a partial that does exist.

Note: this all works perfectly on localhost.

Using

  • Node: 10.5.0
  • Expres: 4.16.3
  • Hbs: 4.0.1

File Structure:

| > Server
|   > server.js
| > Views
|   > layout.hbs
|   > Partials
|     > pageheader.hbs

server/server.js

let app = express();

hbs.registerPartials(__dirname + '\\..\\views\\partials');
app.set('view engine', 'hbs');

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  res.render('layout.hbs', {
    title: 'Home'
  }
});

views/layout.hbs

...
<body>
    {{> pageheader}}
</body>
...

views/partials/pageheader.hbs

<h1>{{title}}</h1>

and finally...

Heroku Log

/app/node_modules/handlebars/dist/cjs/handlebars/runtime.js:266
throw new _exception2['default']('The partial ' + options.name + ' could not be found');
^
Error: The partial pageheader could not be found
at Object.invokePartial (/app/node_modules/handlebars/dist/cjs/handlebars/runtime.js:266:11)
at Object.invokePartialWrapper [as invokePartial] (/app/node_modules/handlebars/dist/cjs/handlebars/runtime.js:68:39)
at Object.eval [as main] (eval at createFunctionContext (/app/node_modules/handlebars/dist/cjs/handlebars/compiler/javascript-compiler.js:254:23), <anonymous>:12:28)
at main (/app/node_modules/handlebars/dist/cjs/handlebars/runtime.js:173:32)
at ret (/app/node_modules/handlebars/dist/cjs/handlebars/runtime.js:176:12)
at ret (/app/node_modules/handlebars/dist/cjs/handlebars/compiler/compiler.js:525:21)
at render_file (/app/node_modules/hbs/lib/hbs.js:49:23)
at render_with_layout (/app/node_modules/hbs/lib/hbs.js:80:5)
at cacheAndCompile (/app/node_modules/hbs/lib/hbs.js:151:5)
at /app/node_modules/hbs/lib/hbs.js:171:7
at FSReqWrap.readFileAfterClose [as oncomplete] (internal/fs/read_file_context.js:53:3)

I appreciate any help / suggestions, I have searched google, read anything I can find that seems to relate. I just don't understand why this works on localhost and not on Heroku.

Solution

  • So... I think I have found the problem as the '..' portion of the path.

    I have moved server.js to root and altered file references to match that change... it works fine everywhere now.